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Cascading sand and warbling strings: A few standout moments from 2023's stage and gallery scene

Random memorable scenes from the year in arts span 50 dancers swirling in BOLERO X, a powerful Julius Caesar speech, and a cello star’s finale with local string students

Kokoro Dance closes out 2023 with a Jazz Jam, December 29

Live improvised music accompanies the butoh company’s dancers

DANCEGail JohnsonDecember 22, 2023Kokoro Dance

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival announces PuSh Play podcast, now streaming across platforms

Gabrielle Martin converses with artists who are pushing boundaries and playing with form ahead of the festival’s run from January 18 to February 4

Kokoro Dance hosts another Jazz Jam evening with live music at KW Studios on December 29

The company’s butoh dancers team up with local jazz musicians in a recurring interdisciplinary series

DANCE, MUSICStir VancouverDecember 15, 2023Partner Content, Kokoro Dance

Dance review: Ebnflōh Dance Company playfully flips the tables on witness and witnessed

In hip-hop-charged La Probabilité du Néant, the company and its DJ build restless crowd scenes and lock eyes with the audience

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 8, 2023DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Scotiabank Dance Centre

Arts Umbrella Dance Company shakes things up like a snowglobe in Mixed Nuts, December 15 to 17

The company’s version of Nutcracker is entirely its own

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonDecember 8, 2023Arts Umbrella, Nutcracker, Mixed Nuts

Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Nutcracker dances onto the Centre for Performing Arts stage, December 7 to 10

A Canadian theme distinguishes Vancouver’s only professional production of the timeless classic

DANCEGail JohnsonDecember 5, 2023Ballet BC, Nutcracker, Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Montreal’s Ebnflōh explores the bystander effect through language of hip-hop

In its B.C. debut at the Dance Centre, Spicey Landé’s new La Probabilité du Néant takes fierce street form into urgent psychological terrain

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 1, 2023The Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE

Arts Umbrella Dance Company presents holiday classic Mixed Nuts, December 15 to 17

Company’s annual take on Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker delivers a blend of dance styles beyond ballet

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 27, 2023Partner Content, Arts Umbrella, Holiday 2023

In Zahak, the Serpent King, brothers Aryo and Arash Khakpour use Persian myth to explore themes of power and oppression

Eerie performance from The Biting School melds dance, physical theatre, spoken-word, and video projections

DANCE, THEATREJanet SmithNovember 22, 2023The Biting School

Holiday Shows 2023: Stir's ultimate guide to all the festive performances and events in Vancouver

From singing gingerbread men to a ballet classic to a mother of a theatre piece, Vancouver’s arts scene has the season covered

MUSIC, THEATRE, DANCE, HOLIDAY23Gail JohnsonNovember 22, 2023Christmas, concerts, Holiday 2023, Holiday 2023 Top 3, Homepage feature

Theatre Replacement and Company 605 unveil interdisciplinary HOLD ON LET GO festival lineup, beginning January 23

Previously known as PushOFF, newly named annual event highlights experimental works by the likes of Hong Kong Exile and Mardon + Mitsuhashi

THEATRE, DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 16, 2023Theatre Replacement, Company 605

Stand Up Dance’s Meagan O'Shea breaks down borders, drawing on influences around the world

Multiyear, immersive Anatomalia: anatomy + anomaly + femalia saw a creation process that took her from Germany to Morocco

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 14, 2023DANCE CENTRE

Dance review: Buried beneath a mound of trash in Accumulation, Alvin Erasga Tolentino embodies climate anxiety

Emmanuel Mailly’s live score and Marc Gerenton’s sculpture work help craft an utterly creative picture of heartbreak and distress

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 10, 2023Co.ERASGA, Performance Works

In a Vancouver first, Mandala Arts and Culture presents Mohiniyattam, November 18

Event marks the inaugural professional performance locally of the Indian classical dance style

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonNovember 10, 2023Jai Govinda, Mandala Arts + Culture, dance

Stir Q&A: Through My Eyes re-creates childlike wonder with imaginative dance and a kaleidoscope of colours

Piece for young audiences by Montreal company Bouge de là’s Hélène Langevin plays with shadows, shapes, and illusions

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 8, 2023Anvil Theatre, Bouge de là

Arts Umbrella’s School of Dance launches its 2024 International Audition Tour, December 3

Auditions for five ballet-based programs travel from Vancouver to Amsterdam, New York City, and Toronto

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 8, 2023Partner Content, Arts Umbrella

Dance review: At Ballet BC's HERE season opener, its largest-ever work brings the audience to its feet

Shahar Binyamini’s exhilarating and unforgettable 50-dancer BOLERO X caps a top-notch program that showcases a powerhouse corps

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 4, 2023Ballet BC, Batsheva, BALLET BC, ARTS UMBRELLA, Vancouver Civic Theatres

In new dance solo Accumulation, Alvin Erasga Tolentino taps into human consumption's alarming effect on the environment

World premiere from Co.ERASGA incorporates a live soundtrack by Emmanuel Mailly, and sculptural work by visual artist Marc Gerenton

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 3, 2023Co.ERASGA, Performance Works

Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 screenings and installations to catch at F-O-R-M Festival of Recorded Movement

Offerings this year span stop-motion animation and immersive video environments, and topics from Indigenous belief systems to melting glaciers

DANCE, SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverNovember 2, 2023F-O-R-M, Festival of Recorded Movement

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